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Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from … of initially childless men and women in the UK. Those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be …
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This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and … shows that a shrinking manufacturing sector increases inequality. In addition, an influx of low-skilled immigrants increases … inequality, but this effect is concentrated in areas with a steeper manufacturing decline. Similar results are found for two …
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This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
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The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer inspection that macro trends alone cannot provide...
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In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This...
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The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy. …
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manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 … could do more to promote entrepreneurship; to diversify and grow manufacturing export markets through focused trade …
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, including the innovative part of manufacturing, are only influenced by changes in the cyclical component of unemployment, while …
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(increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last … model for a sample of 400 Italian manufacturing firms, showing that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational …
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capital operating time. We suggest the use of a panel data approach applied to manufacturing data. A dynamic model is …
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